The Moral Failure of Communism

It is interesting how communism is given relatively good press, given the atrocities that have been committed in its name.  I am currently reading a book called Trading With the Enemy which gives an account of how some business leaders traded with Nazi Germany before and during WWII.  What is seldom seen with quite the same moral indignation is our open support of the Soviet Union in that conflict.  All this despite the fact that communism has resulted in the death of many more people than national socialism ever killed.  When we consider that the bulk of the Nazi mass murder was committed after we had already sided with the Soviet Union in that conflict, and that much of the mass murder committed by the Soviet Union was done prior to that point in time, things look much worse for us.

None of this should be taken as minimizing the atrocities committed by the Nazis, which are quite rightly condemned.  However, I question whether the war was the best way of protecting their victims.  It is not immediately clear to me that we could not have saved more people by liberalizing our immigration policies.

Look here for an account of our failure to come to terms with communisms moral failure.